The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-11-27
POLITICAL OBSERVATIONS,

Jay sloat Fossett the youthful bald head; william II.
Robertson. the Bismarck OF Katonah; Henry n. Low, the
patriarch OF woman sunragists, and George B. Sloan,
who. could throw any Senator Of his weight in a catch.
as-catch-can wrestle, are ~aspirants for the job Of Presi.
dent pro tempore of the next Senate. They arc all great
men, and they all have bald spots and whiskers of vari.
Gus sorts. Fassett is the youngest Sloan the fattest and
Low has tho finest nose.
John 8. Kenyon, John W. vrooman, Charles Fitch,
James II. Manville, and Frank 8. Smith have been men.
toned As possible Clerks Of the next Senate. They arc
all lying low until 1t IL seen who will be President pro
temporo. Smith, who II Secretary OF the State Com.
mittee and the son Of tho Health onioer. says he Is not .
candidate. vroomnn IL the present Clerk. Ho comes
from Senator Ailer's county and has hurt tho Senator
and the reputation Of tho Senate by his conduct as clerk.
Kenyon IL from Syracuse. and Hiscock can put him In II
he wants to. Manvnie was beaten for Senator BY
Michael =. Collins He was in the Assembly last year,
and has . hankertnS for some job or other about tho
Capitol Fitch u . cheerful. amiable, and charming
Rochester editor.
Twelve Of the twenty.four men who will represent
New York oity In the next Assembly wore in the last
Assembly and several others have served In tho Assem-.
bly, before. Three Of last years Assemblymsn will DO In
the next Senate. The Assemblymen who have been re.
elected are Finn, Sullivan, Hsyss Brennan, AcKenna,
Martin, Hamilton. Hagan, Dalton, Hornidge. Crosby,
and Shea Crosby and Hamilton arc the only Republi.
can Assomblymen reelected. Henry was not renomi.
mated, and Charles Smith, who had q quarrel with his
ou thaoIoT, JUN o. oIiou, Thu luucpenuenty HI was
beaten. OF the twelve men who are not reelected, Power
calmly retired TO temporary private life; Henry was not
renomlnAted and returns to the real estate business;
Smith was beaten at tho polls and will run his saloon
with silver dollars In tho door; Langbein will be In
the Senate; Giegerich Is Internal revenue collector; VII.
liam Patrick Mulry became one of tho managers Of the
Nicoll campaign; K%unzenman was beaten for reelection
and IL contemplating mstrimony; McAdam quits tho
~roughness Of the Assembly Chamber. with the chance OF
. piece Of ceiling falling any day on his head, for tho
peace Of a law ONCE; Kenny goes back to his trade; Ives
and Cantor will be In tho Senate. and Mcintyre, who
dropped the Assembly In vain reliance on Powers prom.
ise to nominate him for Senator. returns to law practice.
There will be almost q new set of faces in tho State
Senate from New York city this winter. Only two OF
the seven Senators were renominated. They were Col.
N. G. Murphy and e. y. Reilly. Both were elected.
Three Of the ave new Senators, Ives Cantor. and Lang
bein, were Assemblymen last year. II was Langbein's
nrst term, Ivess second. and Cantors third. The new
delegation will be younger, more honest. more talka
tive, and has less whiskers than tho old. With the ex.
ception Of Reilly. none OF the New York Senators was q
steady speaker last year. All the new Senators who
were In the Assembly can mako speeches, and were
among the entertaining takers of the Assembly last
winter. So far A. the majority OF tho changes 20 they
have tended to improve the character OF the delegation.
Ives Il . vast Improvement over Piunkitt and Cantor
will nos DO hAmpsred BY the corporate influences which
limited the usefulness OF his predecessor. Senator
Traphsgen- stadler II not known ~ = legislator. but he
will have to try hard 10 DO worse than Cullen. Van Colt
Ia ~ able q man as Senator Durham The exception to
the general Improvement in the delegation Is in the
Seventh district. senator DAILY. who has served three
consecutive terms declined a denomination. and II was
thought that the Republicans or Labor party would
carry the district as not one OF tho three Assembly dis
triots had gone for Hewitt LAnEbein was nominated
because nobody In particular wanted the nomination.
fhsn o'Brisn and Patterson fought over the Republican
noAAiaAuons and Sut W two Republican candidates.
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